Mediterranean Shipping Company, together with Maersk Line and CMA CGM, are in the process of reorganising their respective services between China and the US west coast, to launch three separate joint services in April.
The first service, which MSC has named the Eagle Express, will cover Central and Southern China, and will call at Hong Kong, Yantian, Kaohsiung, Shanghai, Qingdao and Los Angeles.
The second service, the New Orient Express, will cover Central and Northern China, making port of calls at Dalian, Tianjin Xingang, Shanghai, Ningbo, Long Beach and Oakland.
Each of these two new services will deploy five 8,000 TEU ships, with four operated by Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Company and two vessels operated by CMA CGM.
In addition, Mediterranean Shipping Company and CMA CGM will slot charter container space on Maersk Line's service, which will cover ports in Korea and Japan to North America. This service will be operated by five 4,000-TEU ships, an MSC statement said.
Named by MSC as the Sunrise, this service will call at Kwangyang, Busan, Kobe, Shimizu, Nagoya, Yokohama, Los Angeles and Oakland.
"This new initiative will allow MSC, Maersk Line and CMA CGM to rationalise their existing transpacific US west coast services, while providing customers with port coverage in China, Japan and Korea and shorter transit times," the release added.
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